Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-01
pROw WARRINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzETTEl
WASHINGTON, D. c.. July l. 1887.

,rofessed support of the civil service law.
aid that when the Senator was Secretary oil
he Treasury he told democratic friend he
you'd like TO appoint man who had been
recommended to him as competent and eff
icient. but could not as that man was
democrat and he was republican.
Mr.. w. w. DUNCAN, receiver of tho AL
,xaudria canal, Gays that when all the &C.
counts of the company owning it shall be
settled, the line OF the canal will be divided
into three sections and sold By auction. he
saws he doesn't think the bed of the canal
will ever be used for any sort OF road pur-
poses.
The fish commissioners say they planted
sixty. eight million young shad in the trlb-
utaries of the Chesapeake last season. They
plant large numbers almost every year, and
yet, according to old Potomac river Usher
men, the number of shad in that river, one
year by year.
Among the department clerks here whose
nav has Just been reduced in order to bring
the service within the appropriation for the
fiscal year that commenced to-day are Miss
E. G. Van Lew, ex.postmastero OF Richmond,
the Federal spy in Richmond during the
war, whose salary has been reduced from
81 200 to $3.50, and Mrs. Annie E. Lomis, OF
Alexandria, who has been reduced from the
81 900 class to copyist's place.
1t is stated at the State Department here
that there is no truth, so far as is known
there, where, if it were true, it would be
known, in the recent assertion of Rev. Dr.
McGlynn that the Vatican had attempted
to establish diplomatic relations with this
government.
The proposed new rules Of the civil SER
vice commission remove the age restriction
upon applicants for Office under those rules,
except in so far az they raise the age of adj
mission to twenty.one years. But there Is
such squabble among the members OF the
commission about the rules that no body
now knows whether they will be adopted
or not.
The President has appointed Julius T.
Conrad, of Washington, son of Col. Conrad,
of the army, and John NJ. Palmer, grandson
of Gov. Palmer, of Illinois. to be cadets at
large at the West Point Military Academy.
The President will not have an opportunity
to make further appointments to the Acad-
envy until after the graduation oftwo cadets
at large of the class Of 1889.
The President has suspended the sentence
in November, 1886, of selling liquor without
8 license.
This is the first day of the fiscal year, d
day on which there are usually large
number of changes in the government de-
partments here. But few such changes
we're made to-day, fewer, it is said, than for
twenty years past. In the government
printing office, however, there were between
forty and fifty removals.
The school teachers of North Carolina
who have been holding State convention
in Morehead City, made an excursion to
to this city to day, arriving here this morn
ing OH the Norfolk steamer George Leary.
Judging from the expressed opinions of
several Of those who heard the evidence
in the Todd case tried by the Washington
Presbylery in this city yesterday the
charges against the preacher were sustained,
and the vrdct will be against him.
Miss Wakefield, of Virginia, one of the
two young ladies reported to have been in-
suited by two OF the Capitol guides hers last
week, will, it is said. be here to M SOW to
identify the young men charged .th the
offense. The other one, Miss I Nrn, OF
MARYLAND, as heretofore stated, as pub
lished card saying the charge 40 utterly
untrue.
The case of Shipman Vs. Fletcher, both of
Fairfax county, Vireinia,in which the plain
tiff is suing for$30, 900 damages for conspiracy
TO injure him in body as we'll as purse, Is
now being tried here. Senator Daniel, OF
the prosecution yesterday, and will also
close the case to day. His speech yesterday
ia spoken of as a mastery effort. Col.
Christie spoke for the defense to-day. The
case will probably be given to the jury to-.
morrow.
A. Civil Service examining board having
completed the examination off clerks In the
Ouartermaster Generals Office will begin on
July 11th TO examine the clerks OF the Sur
geon Generals Office.
The decrease of the public debt for the
month of June is about sic 450,000 which
makes the total reduction for the fiscal year
ended yesterday about $l09, 100000.
The total receipts for Juue were 335O1O,-
$50 and the total receipts for the fiscal year
ended Yesterday were 1871 $50, 1914 made up
as follows Customs $217, 403 ,9S3; Internal
Revenue SIG, 1856, AL; miscellaneous 1884,
S40,463.
Among the appointmen made yesterday
according to Senator Call, was that OF
carpet bag republican to be lighthouse keep
or in Florida.
OF the deaths that occurred here last
week one hundred and nineteen were CT
children under four years of age.
To such an extent has thieVing been car
ried on in the Government Printing Office
here that everybody going into or leaving
that office now has to have pass.
A colored man named Berry, who has
been driving cart here for the last seven
years, has been appointed to place in the
coast survey, and charged to the Winches.
ter district in Virginia.
SHOOTING AFFRAY.-A shooting affray